A small reminder for me that FreeBSD’s tar (BSDTAR) can extract ISO files out of the box, unlike GNU tar which can’t as far as I know.
List files in the ISO file:
$ tar -tf filename.iso
Extract files to current directory (pwd)
$ tar -xf filename.iso
Believe it or not I was installing mysql on a FreeBSD 7 box for most of the day. After looking at the make options my attention was grabbed by the WITH_LINUXTHREADS parameter. After a bit of googling it seemed the I did not need linuxthreads on FreeBSD7-STABLE. So there I go and add the WITH_LINUXTHREADS=no and… the installation fails at… linuxthreads.
Well. I’ve spent lots of time googling, passed numerous make errors. Basically at the end of the day I just modified the Makefile of the mysql port to totally bypass the WITH_LINUXTHREADS and just add the standart non-linuxthread configure options.
Open the Makefile
# vi /usr/ports/databases/mysqlxx-server/Makefile
Find these lines (or similar)
.if defined(WITH_LINUXTHREADS)
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-named-thread-libs='-DHAVE_GLIBC2_STYLE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=-D_THREAD_SAFE -I${LOCALBASE}/include/pthread/linuxthreads
CFLAGS+= -D__USE_UNIX98 -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE
CFLAGS+= -I${LOCALBASE}/include/pthread/linuxthreads
LIB_DEPENDS+= lthread.[35]:${PORTSDIR}/devel/linuxthreads
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -llthread -llgcc_r -llstdc++ -llsupc++'
Change to
.if defined(WITH_LINUXTHREADS)
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-named-thread-libs=${PTHREAD_LIBS}
CFLAGS+= ${PTHREAD_CFLAGS}
Everything compiled and installed afterwards without the linuxthreads (I did not want them anyway).
I needed to upgrade MySQL 4.0.27 to MySQL 5.0 on one of the production servers that I manage . If anyone has any trouble doing that, I have written a small tutorial on how to accomplish this task without many problems.
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